title: Depression and type D personality among undergraduate medical students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Academic pressure, though established, is an unavoidable cause of depression in medical students. Role of Type D personality as determinant of depression is a new approach to the problem.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Determination of relationship between Type D personality and Depression among medical students.
  
  
  METHODS
  Undergraduate students (both male and female, total 150) of Midnapore Medical College.
  
  
  METHODS
  Beck Depression Inventory for depression and DS 14 for type D personality.
  
  
  METHODS
  The scores were expressed as mean + SD. The significance of difference between the scores was done by Fisher's 2 sample t test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prevalence rate of depression was 45.3%, which was mostly of mild type (34%). Type D personality was present in 70% cases of which 15.3% had only negative affectivity, 23.3% had only social inhibition and 31% had both the components. Both depression & Type D personality were present in 36% cases. Negative affectivity component was significantly associated with depression which could be therapeutically controlled.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Soma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Prosenjit
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Basak
keywords: Depression; medical students; type D personality